mikelincs

One of the biggest problems was in the allocation of land for building. Builders were saying, 'ohh look, there's a nice area of flat land that would be ideal for a few hundred houses' and they would get planning permission and up would go the houses, now there was a very good reason the land as flat, it was the flood plain for the nearby river, and it was water flooding that area that kept the local towns and villages safe. This has now come back to bite people very hard on their arses.
Where I used to live in Lincolnshire we did get flooded once, the local river that drained into the Trent backed up when the sluice gate was closed to prevernt tidal water coming up, and there had been a lot of rain coming down another river which joined it a few hundred yards downstream of our house. TThe upshot was the rivers filled up and overtopped their banks, this sent a few inches of waater into out garden, it didn't rise enough to breach the sandbags in the doorways, but it did come through the floor as tthe house was built directly onto the soil with no gap under.

We did have a meeting with the local environment people a few months later, and the blame was laid squarely at their door as they had approved the raisng of the river banks in the area that would have been the flood plain so farmers could work their land easier. The next year they removed all the raised banks, and the river, although it did overflow again, never threatened any property as all it flooded was farm land.

old.sparkles

Don't know if this has been posted - environment agency site to check flood warnings http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...ds/142151.aspx

Bud the Wiser

Stunning pic from Dorset.

old.sparkles

Unreal - not sure if I'd be stood there

Bud the Wiser

Amateur video of waves hitting Newlyn in Cornwall. Powerless in the face of nature.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/we...-Cornwall.html

Bud the Wiser

One thing I do miss is the lighter evenings that spring and summer bring..

Some better weather for the UK and some nice pics from the daily mail website.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ter-Ibiza.html

brissybee

Thank-you for sharing those stunning pictures. I could almost smell the daffodils.

Bud the Wiser

Summer time and the living is easy.......... some quintessential British seaside/summer photos.

Not sure why Brighton beach always ends up in these pics though.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-high-24C.html